Ancient Gold
Lot 3081 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Ancient Gold
Estimate $900
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $750
IONIA, Phokaia, (c.387-326 B.C.), electrum hekte or sixth stater, (2.552 grams), issued in 366 B.C. [Bodenstedt dating], obv. female head to left, with hair pulled back into a bun behind, rev. quadripartite incuse punch, (cf.S.4530 [£550], Bodenstedt 99 [obv. a, rev **b* same dies], Weber 6087, BMC 51, SNG von Post 244). Very fine and rare.
Bodenstedt records no coins from these dies and apparently Bodenstedt knew of only 19 examples for this type from all known dies.
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